Monday, August 25, 2014

Wherever you go

The tracking
technology takes advantage of the lax security of SS7, a global network
that cellular carriers use to communicate with one another when
directing calls, texts and Internet data.

Users of such technology type a phone number into a computer portal,
which then collects information from the location databases maintained
by cellular carriers, company documents show. In this way, the
surveillance system learns which cell tower a target is currently using,
revealing his or her location to within a few blocks in an urban area
or a few miles in a rural one.

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